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Saturday afternoon (April 7th), the statue of the Madonna del Soccorso di Sciacca was translated from the Italian American Museum (155 Mulberry St.) to the Shrine Church of the Most Precious Blood (113 Baxter St.) in Little Italy, New York. After ten years, the museum is closing for renovations and the statue, which once belonged to the defunct San...

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“The first time, my mother brought me here in a stroller,” council-member Joe Buscaino recalls during the Saint Joseph’s celebration in San Pedro, a feast that has had a profound meaning for his family for a long time. His grandmother, Rosaria LoGrande, known as nonna Savina, was one of the six Sicilian women members of the Italian Catholic Federat...

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A sold-out crowd celebrated the Feast of St. Joseph at The Community House on Sanibel with a homemade Italian dinner, followed by karaoke song and dance. Hosted by the Sanibel Catholic Women and Men, the celebration marked the fourth charity event to benefit local Catholic and island charities since the organization's formation in 2017. Following F...

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St. Anthony Chapel, a Romanesque-style church located in the Troy Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was founded by Father Suitbert Mollinger, a Belgian-born missionary and priest, in 1880. The son of a wealthy family, Mollinger used his inheritance to build St. Anthony’s as a place of worship that could host his growing collection of t...

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The Easter celebrations of Sicily are as numerous as petals on daisy chains, with an endless procession of Holy Week festivities to choose from. Every small town has its Via Crucis which reenacts the final moments of Jesus Christ’s life on Good Friday. The whole week from Palm Sunday to Easter Day is filled with many variations, in different colors...

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This church is living on a prayer. A posse of preservationists in Dyker Heights is pushing the city to landmark a beloved church to save it from demolition, with parishioners worried that the Brooklyn Diocese is planning to bulldoze the building in pursuit of profit over piousness. The city must save St. Rosalia Church at 14th Avenue and 63rd Stree...

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Monday evening, Knights of the Sacred Military Constatntinian Order of St. George joined the parishioners of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Newark, New Jersey to celebrate the Feast of St. Joseph and commemorate the anniversary of the death of the Order’s late Grand Master, HRH Prince don Ferdinando Maria di Borbone of the Two Sicilies. Mass wa...

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The Sant’Amatore Society will host the Feast of Sant’Amatore on May 6. Festivities will include a noon Mass in the Chapel at Villa Scalabrini, 480 N. Wolf Road, Northlake, followed by a procession and reception in Paterno Hall. The day will conclude with a 3:30 p.m. dinner dance at Alta Villa Banquets, 430 N. Addison Road, Addison. A Novena will be...

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In the shadow of the fight to save the storied Angel Guardian Home lurks the slated demolition of a nearby church with similar, century-old roots. According to a February church bulletin distributed to parishioners, St. Rosalia Church, 6301 14th Avenue, is in the process of being sold by the Brooklyn Diocese and the site, which has housed the histo...

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The Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Feast Committee will kick off its landmark 125th annual feast by honoring all the candlehouses and religious groups on April 21 at Elmcrest Banquets in Elmwood Park. Caliendo’s Banda Napoletana will receive the Fr. Benjamin Franch Biretta Award at the event. Cocktails will be served at 6:30 p.m., awards will be presented...

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